Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Svazek 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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... ; and from the probability , or rather certainty , that a like knowledge of them is not to be expected from any other source . The same remarks are appli- cable to the Debates in the same Congress , preserved vi PREFACE .
... ; and from the probability , or rather certainty , that a like knowledge of them is not to be expected from any other source . The same remarks are appli- cable to the Debates in the same Congress , preserved vi PREFACE .
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... expected to be effected through the me- diation of the Empress of Russia . The same reasons obliged me still to decline ; and the negociation was in fact never entered on . But , in the autumn of the next year , 1782 , Con- gress ...
... expected to be effected through the me- diation of the Empress of Russia . The same reasons obliged me still to decline ; and the negociation was in fact never entered on . But , in the autumn of the next year , 1782 , Con- gress ...
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... expected . But to return again to our subject . Those who thought seven states competent to the ratifica- tion being very restless under the loss of their motion , I pro- posed , on the third of January , to meet them on middle ground ...
... expected . But to return again to our subject . Those who thought seven states competent to the ratifica- tion being very restless under the loss of their motion , I pro- posed , on the third of January , to meet them on middle ground ...
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... expected on the subject of my attendance ; and , on the first conference with the Marquis of Caermarthen , the Minister for foreign affairs , the distance and disinclination which he be- trayed in his conversation , the vagueness and ...
... expected on the subject of my attendance ; and , on the first conference with the Marquis of Caermarthen , the Minister for foreign affairs , the distance and disinclination which he be- trayed in his conversation , the vagueness and ...
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... expected they would contri- bute a frigate , and its expenses , to be in constant cruize . But they were in no condition to make any such engagement . Their recommendatory powers for obtaining contributions were so openly neglected by ...
... expected they would contri- bute a frigate , and its expenses , to be in constant cruize . But they were in no condition to make any such engagement . Their recommendatory powers for obtaining contributions were so openly neglected by ...
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Strana 6 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 4 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 9 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Strana 7 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Strana 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Strana 8 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...
Strana 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Strana 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Strana 7 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...